Arkansas lawmakers advance proposal to double state-funded pregnancy resource center grant • Arkansas Advocate
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Google-News-Wire
- April 18, 2024
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- Trend – Abortion
An Arkansas legislative panel on Thursday approved the doubling of a taxpayer-funded grant to support pregnancy resource centers, which are often religiously affiliated and discourage abortion while encouraging birth. Republican leaders statewide have held up pregnancy resource centers as critical since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022 and Arkansas subsequently […]
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Proposed Arkansas ballot measure would make abortion access a constitutional right
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Google-News-Wire
- November 28, 2023
- 2024 election
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- For AR People
- infant mortality
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- Roe V. Wade
- tim griffin
- Trend – Abortion
- Trend – Election 2024
The Arkansas Attorney General’s Office will decide Tuesday whether a proposed measure to enshrine abortion as a constitutional right will go on the 2024 statewide ballot. State government entities would not be allowed to “prohibit, penalize, delay or restrict” Arkansans’ access to abortion up to 18 weeks of pregnancy under the Arkansas Reproductive Healthcare Amendment, […]
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Pregnancy care and the abortion ban in Alabama | News | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
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- July 16, 2022
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While Alabama is now under a near-total abortion ban, pregnancy outcomes remain in the top three primary health indicators in Alabama, per the 2020 Alabama State Health Assessment. Health indicators are statistics that measure the health status of an area. Alabama rates of poor pregnancy outcomes are higher than the national average, according to the […]
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